Sam’s Journey will be the first game to feature our new fully printed cardboard boxes. Within the box you’ll find a colored manual (almost the same size as the box), an equally sized world map and further goodies to be revealed later on. The only difference between the Disk and Cart versions will be that the cartridge version saves automatically while in the disk version saving is triggered through a menu.

A new version of the C64 emulator Vice is currently being worked on that will support GMod2 (That’s the cartridge Sam uses) so emulator users will be able to play the cartridge version.

Together with our friends in Out of Order Softworks, we shared a booth at Gamescom – featuring a huge printed C64 screen with a blinking cursor and of course a possibility to play our games – including the upcoming Sam’s Journey!

Such a trade fair is an inexplicable experience. Magical things happen there.
For example, a guy came to our stand and played our games, then presented a C64 disk and said he wanted to have a look what’s on it.

We found a complete and unreleased C64 game on it that he wrote in 1989!

We will keep you informed about the release of this game… it’s a two player split screen Pac Man game with level editor.

We also pre-released a couple of fine product updates on Gamescom – more on that below.

The D42-Adventure System is available in our shop again – in a new version. Not only has this popular software been updated, it now also includes an extension disk – the blue D42-Music Disk, which includes over 40 tracks by Tobias Erbsland, categorised according to mood. You can use these in your own adventures as you see fit.

Other new features include:

support of Exomizer packed files

PC users can download I a script which prints a textual dump of a game for easier text reviewing

With Daniel Meléndez und Bieno Marti, Protovision now has an official representation in Spain.

Daniel launched a Protovision-approved crowd funding campaign for producing a Spanish and an Italian version of Sam’s Journey (with the box and manual all translated into Spanish/Italian) and Bieno will present Sam on RetroBarcelona, the biggest retro convention in Spain.

We are excited and curious to see how many backers will be brave enough to contribute!